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The Write Question - Chris Dombrowski - 274
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chris Dombrowski talks with Sarah Aronson about 'Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish,' which is part memoir, part r...

Bought by KWMR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Muscle: Flex Your Mouse
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
The Write Question - Kent Davis - 272
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and game designer Kent Davis talks about books one and two in his 'A Riddle In Ruby' YA series.

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
At the Fishhouses (A Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
The Write Question - Allen Morris Jones - 271
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
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Allen Morris Jones talks about and reads from his novel 'A Bloom of Bones'

Bought by KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Pete Fromm - 270
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Pete Fromm, author of 'Indian Creek Chronicles,' talks about and reads two short passages from his second memoir, 'The Names of the Stars: A Life i...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Paula McLain - 267
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Paula McLain talks about and reads from her latest novel Circling the Sun, which tells the story of the (actual) Beryl Markum with a first-person n...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KGLT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Keth McCafferty - 265
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Keith McCafferty talks about and reads from the fifth book in his Sean Stranahan mystery series, Buffalo Jump Blues. He also talks about real-life ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Chad Dundas - 264
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chad Dundas talks about wrestling and writing and the characters in his novel 'Champion of the World.;

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Megan McNamer - 263
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Megan McNamer talks about and reads from her novel 'Children and Lunatics,' winner of a Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Joe Wilkins - 261
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Joe Wilkins talks about how he makes poems and reads from his collection 'When We Were Birds'

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Eva Urcia
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 29, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Glen Chamberlain - 254
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Glen Chamberlain talks about the stories in her collection, 'All I Want Is What You've Got.' She also reads several passages and tells why she ditc...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Shawn Vestal - 253
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Shawn Vestal, the winner of 2014’s PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, talks about and reads from his unforgettable debut novel about Loretta, a teenager ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Christine Carbo - 251
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Christine Carbo talks about her crime novels, which are set in Glacier National Park, and tells why she created a fictional GNP police force. She a...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer, Credit: BarryLopez.com
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Writer Loren Eisleley
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Loren Eiseley
In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th ce...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
For Writers Of Historical Fiction, Inventing New Orleans' Past Can Come With A Price
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Imaginative view of Madame Delphine's House, 253 Royal Street in the Vieux Carre., Credit: KEMBLE, EDWARD WINDSOR / HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about George Washington Cable, and the beautiful danger of writing New Orleans-based historical fic...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:22
Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek - A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:26
Take Care #52
From: WRVO Public Media
Series: Take Care
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Episode topics: Facing fear and staying healthy among the sick.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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